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Last summer I spent two weeks at the very rewarding Utrecht Summerschool in Mathematics, so I thought I’d spread the word about this year’s course. It’s entitled Topics in Algebra, Analysis and Geometry; analysis is a new inclusion this year (in place of number theory) and will be the main emphasis. Abstracts for the three courses are not yet available, but the titles are QRT and elliptic surfaces, Distributions,and Lie algebras and Integrable Systems.

As last year, the course runs for two weeks in August, with a fairly intensive schedule of lectures and problem classes; when I attended, the students also spent a couple of days preparing a presentation for the final day. The pace is reasonably demanding, and the ideal audience would be students just finishing undergrad and about to enter study for an MSc or PhD (although I went after a year of postgrad study).

There are also social activities organised by both the department and the university - there are fifty courses scheduled across the summer in a wide range of subjects, so you’ll have the opportunity to mix with students from outside of mathematics too. Utrecht itself is a beautiful city - night canoeing through the canals is highly recommended! - and daytrips further afield are also offered.

For further details on the summerschool programme, see here; specifics for the mathematics course are being made available on the department pages. I also took some photos during my stay. Feel free to leave any questions you have in the comments!

This entry was posted on Sunday, January 6th, 2008 at 3:02 pm and is filed under Analysis, Conferences.